{"title":"A heuristic approach to nurse scheduling in hospital units with non-stationary, urgent demand, and a fixed staff size.","authors":"M W Isken, W M Hancock","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present a practical approach to personnel scheduling problems arising in hospital units with demand that is of an urgent nature, cannot be backlogged, and is highly dependent on the time of day. A simple rounding heuristic is combined with a simulated annealing algorithm to obtain near-optimal solutions to large linear integer programming models of these personnel scheduling problems in a reasonable amount of time on a personal computer. The models are designed to complement the current state-of-the-art of commercially available hospital staff scheduling systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 2","pages":"24-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12997931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decision support systems and the healthcare strategic planning process: a case study.","authors":"D L Lundquist, R M Norris","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The repertoire of applications that comprises health-care decision support systems (DSS) includes analyses of clinical, financial, and operational activities. As a whole, these applications facilitate developing comprehensive and interrelated business and medical models that support the complex decisions required to successfully manage today's health-care organizations. Kennestone Regional Health Care System's use of DSS to facilitate strategic planning has precipitated marked changes in the organization's method of determining capital allocations. This case study discusses Kennestone's use of DSS in the strategic planning process, including profiles of key DSS modeling components.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"22-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12936739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Role of health-care workers in the future delivery of health care.","authors":"L R Kaiser","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is no logical, linear way to approach a future in which knowledge and technology explode and new opportunities go hand-in-hand with rapid obsolescence. Teams and task groups will replace the vertical command structures of the past, making teamwork, flexibility, and imagination more important that absolute knowledge. Maximum downward task delegation and decentralization will empower workers at all levels while challenging the assumptions of licensure. As the health-care organization grows more ephemeral, management will become an increasingly subtle art. Visionary skills are essential in a dynamic, rapidly changing society where the past is no longer a guide for the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 3","pages":"73-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13116931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concepts of designing new delivery models.","authors":"S L Green, L C Malkemes","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The need for health-care organizations to deliver high-quality care that is affordable, while maintaining high morale and productivity among employees, has become a central concern for hospital executives. This article addresses the internal and external pressures that are resulting in hospitals wanting to and having to do things in dramatically different ways. The assumptions, success factors, and approaches to redesign are discussed in relation to the decision to redesign, with attention to factors that should be taken into account in the redesign process, and issues and processes of putting the redesign in place. An example of patient-care redesign with case management is included.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 3","pages":"14-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resource scheduling: from theory to practice.","authors":"R J Giglio","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 2","pages":"2-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12922958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Straight talk about EIS and DSS.","authors":"E S Dodson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The introduction of Executive Information Systems (EIS) to the health-care industry has brought confusion over the relationship between EIS and Decision Support Systems (DSS). This article describes how EIS is distinguished from DSS by its technical origins, the ways decision-makers use both systems, and the process of building and using EIS and DSS. As hospitals become more adept at using the features which EIS technology offers, the inherent differences between EIS and DSS will become even more apparent.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"17-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12936736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing a computerized operating room management system.","authors":"M Choy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Queen's Medical Center implemented a computerized operating room management system in 1987 that includes surgery scheduling, intraoperative recording, and resource tracking. In addition to the important functional components, the system provides management with a better tool for decision-making. The purpose of this article is to describe this implementation. Background is provided to identify the manual system's deficiencies followed by the anticipated benefits of the computer system. The paper concentrates on Queen's implementation experiences in coding the surgical procedure information, confronting staff anxiety, managing the changing roles of the staff and providing adequate resources. Minimum requirements for a successful implementation include designating an effective project leader, assigning system responsibilities to the user, relieving all operational responsibilities from key members of the project team and providing adequate resources to support the system.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 2","pages":"103-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12922957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Knowledge-based schedule formulation and maintenance under uncertainty.","authors":"D Lukman, J H May, L J Shuman, H B Wolfe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper is concerned with the dual sequential problems of (1) determining an acceptable personnel schedule over a specified time period, and (2) adjusting that schedule during the course of its execution in reaction to daily changes in both demand and available personnel. The first problem is schedule formulation; the second sequential problem is schedule execution. A rule-based, hierarchical system has been developed for first modeling and then solving both the schedule formulation and the schedule execution problems as a two-phase dependent process. The system is applied to the scheduling and staffing of nurses. A double-blind evaluation was conducted, which ascertained the quality of the resultant schedules in terms of maintainability, coverage, and personal satisfaction. The evaluation indicates that for units on which personnel changes have occurred, the prototype appears to perform as well as human schedulers.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 2","pages":"42-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12922959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous personnel scheduling algorithms: a literature review.","authors":"D J Bradley, J B Martin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hospitals frequently use personnel scheduling options as recruiting and retention instruments. The successful application of these personnel scheduling tools, whether developed in-house or purchased from vendors, requires appreciation of the interrelationships of three basic manpower decisions--staffing, personnel scheduling, and allocation. This article introduces these basic relationships and their influence on the development of satisfactory personnel schedules. Next, it reviews published personnel scheduling algorithms, applicable to hospital operations, within the context of the three manpower decisions. It is proposed that scheduling algorithms be classified by type of schedule produced (cyclic or noncyclic); and technique used (heuristic, mathematical programming, or self-scheduling). The characteristics of each classification are discussed. Considerations for the development of new personnel scheduling algorithms are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"2 2","pages":"8-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12922961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The future of decision support systems in hospital management.","authors":"C P Lukasik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses the evolution of decision support systems (DSS) within the hospital management environment. It begins with an outline of the historical factors leading to the need for this technology, then goes on to review the unique data-processing attributes a DSS offers and the requisite changes hospital management must make to maximize the benefits of these systems. The purpose is to provide hospital managers and other interested individuals with an overview of DSS functionality. Increasingly restrictive hospital reimbursement systems have created an economic incentive to install DSS technology and refine management structures to take advantage of the enhanced data-processing capabilities. A DSS enables a hospital to organize data captured by its information system on a product-line basis. This capability affords management with an entirely new way of analyzing a hospital's financial performance. Hospitals, traditionally organized on a departmental basis, must change their management structures in order to effectively use the data provided by a DSS.</p>","PeriodicalId":77231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Society for Health Systems","volume":"3 1","pages":"47-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12935364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}